...and the home of the brave...
I was reading a BBC article about the Terri Schiavo autopsy, and it led to a blog about America. Here's an excerpt:
"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge.
I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture, and that picture is in many respects a true one.
...
Look no further than the $25m creationist museum which is about to open in Kentucky.
Complete with models of Adam and Eve being chased by dinosaurs, surely some mistake, and explanations of AIDS that blame the disease on homosexuality."
Is this how the world really views us? If so, then I'm gonna move to Canada with Ruger. The author did, however, go on to say:
"There is plenty of barminess and plenty of nastiness here if you look for it, but for me, the revelation of the Schiavo case was that there is plenty of good sense as well.
Plenty of honest disagreement among reasonable people, religious and non religious, Republican and Democrat.
And in the end a majority who value what we can call, without irony, the American way of life, and believe their politicians and the right-to-life campaigners over-reached themselves in this case."
But, he also included these shameful little facts:
"Remember that two weeks ago, America's Congress interrupted its holiday and in solemn session convened in Washington to change the law in order that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be reinserted.
The president himself brought Air Force One back from Texas in order that he could sleep at the White House, and get up at one o' clock in the morning to sign the new law in his pyjamas."
Things are pretty fucked up in this "Great" country of ours, aren't they?
-=gc=-
P.S.: BBC article available here.
"America is often portrayed as an ignorant, unsophisticated sort of place, full of bible bashers and ruled to a dangerous extent by trashy television, superstition and religious bigotry, a place lacking in respect for evidence based knowledge.
I know that is how it is portrayed because I have done my bit to paint that picture, and that picture is in many respects a true one.
...
Look no further than the $25m creationist museum which is about to open in Kentucky.
Complete with models of Adam and Eve being chased by dinosaurs, surely some mistake, and explanations of AIDS that blame the disease on homosexuality."
Is this how the world really views us? If so, then I'm gonna move to Canada with Ruger. The author did, however, go on to say:
"There is plenty of barminess and plenty of nastiness here if you look for it, but for me, the revelation of the Schiavo case was that there is plenty of good sense as well.
Plenty of honest disagreement among reasonable people, religious and non religious, Republican and Democrat.
And in the end a majority who value what we can call, without irony, the American way of life, and believe their politicians and the right-to-life campaigners over-reached themselves in this case."
But, he also included these shameful little facts:
"Remember that two weeks ago, America's Congress interrupted its holiday and in solemn session convened in Washington to change the law in order that Terri Schiavo's feeding tube should be reinserted.
The president himself brought Air Force One back from Texas in order that he could sleep at the White House, and get up at one o' clock in the morning to sign the new law in his pyjamas."
Things are pretty fucked up in this "Great" country of ours, aren't they?
-=gc=-
P.S.: BBC article available here.